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An added bonus is that with Bluehost you can get a WordPress site up and running in about 5 minutes. This, of course, is possible because setting up an account, acquiring a domain, and installing WordPress can all be done from the Bluehost site. Bluehost streamlines the process for getting up and running with your WordPress site by providing a 1-click installation.
GoDaddy sit somewhere in the middle. Apart from the WP101 video tutorials, the extras in the GoDaddy WordPress installation don’t add as much to the user experience as those from Bluehost. Moreover, the lack of cPanel access with GoDaddy may be off-putting to more experienced users — not to mention the lack of support for the newer versions of PHP, no HTTP/2, and no free SSL certificate. However, the load testing did show that GoDaddy provided a resilient service.
Bluehost also lets you set up non-managed WordPress sites. When you click the control panel's WordPress icon, you're taken to the Mojo Marketplace, from which you can install the WordPress app. Like iPage, Bluehost lets you set up a fresh WordPress installation or directly import an existing one. Installation is straightforward, and you can browse through the marketplace for additional themes and applications.

The next tier, called the ‘Plus’ plan comes with unlimited features for bandwidth, storage, email accounts, and domains hosting. It is at $12.99 a month for a year’s subscription, and is currently offered at a 36-month term promotion of $5.95 monthly. One sought-after feature that it comes with is the SpamExperts protection for a domain of your choice.

Established back in 1998, LunarPages operates three state-of-the-art data centers. Equipped with multiple GigE fiber connections to the internet backbone, the company built out seismically-braced racks and cabinets, fully-redundant Liebert HVAC cooling systems, a diesel generator that can run for weeks, and a pre-action dry pipe fire suppression system.

BlueHost is one of the hosting providers with the best pricing. But this doesn’t mean that their services are compromised. The page loading speed is fairly good. This is because they manage the websites on their servers well and move the sites that need more resources to other servers so that they don’t disrupt the functioning of other websites on the same server. They have maximum uptime, which considering their low price, is impressive.

When running business website online, there are a number of things asking for your attention. Besides, for a server related issue, you would want to resolve it as quickly as possible. In that case, you wouldn’t want to rely on email support. Sending an email and then waiting for the service provider to respond is beyond annoying when you have a critical network issue on your hand.

Bluehost doesn't offer month-to-month shared hosting options. Instead, it requires you to sign up for an annual plan. If you sign up for a two-year or three-year plan, you get discounts. If you commit to staying put for three years, the service's $3.95 per month rate is attractive. That said, those who don't want lengthy commitments will probably prefer HostGator's month-to-month options.

I would like to thank all those who have taking time out to write about their experiences with Bluehost. I am writing simply because you have saved me a fortune of Wealth not necessary money but stress, frustration, anger, time, and even depression. I had wanted to buy a Dedicated Hosting and Domain from Bluehost and for their Website Builders to build my Website for me discussion on Chat concluded yesterday at about this time for their Website builder to call me tomorrow. However somehow The Lord Works in a Mysterious ways indeed, l was just checking out Dreamhost and decided to check Bluehost review and l felt so, so sorry the way individual have been treated after reading 110 BAD REVIEWS AGAINT BLUEHOST according to TRUSTPILOT. This is very wrong and l am giving them 1Star in support of people who have gone through hard times with Bluehost and still have the courage to write a review to help people like myself who are yet to fall a victim. Thank you all the reviewers. I have since walked away and will Chat to them soon to cancel the appointment for tomorrow. This is unbelievable and unprofessional of Bluehost, shocking as Wordpress.org still have them as their official distributor, so l read on search engine, and l really worried too about Wordpress.org as they should do something about all these complains coming against their official distributor. I am really very grateful for this lucky escape truly! THANK YOU!

But the path to get here involved a support chat session lasting 45 minutes with someone so horrendous that all I can do is laugh now. To be fair, he must have been dealing with a dozen customers at once but he was so fine with being incompetent that he must have been at his wits end. I decided to abort this chat and look up info elsewhere and things worked out, but had I actually listened to anything he said I would have messed everything up very badly.
You’ll never feel trapped with BlueHost. They have a clear and well-defined refund policy. The “30 days money back guarantee” states that if you are not satisfied and want to leave BlueHost within the first 30 days of service, you will get a full refund. This essentially feels like a trial period, you only stay with them if you are satisfied, else you can claim and get your money back.
The Plus Plan is ideal for those looking for more space and more flexibility. This plan gives you the option to host unlimited websites, and with it you get unmetered space for your site. This plan is ideal for sites looking to grow fast, developers, and serial entrepreneurs. You still get a free domain, but as an added bonus you get unlimited email accounts, email storage, and subdomains where the basic plan will limit you in those areas.
However…I have noticed that in the past 6 months or so, HostGator’s support is not what it used to be. I had a ticket open and waited days for an answer, to the point that the technician apologized and issued me a month’s refund for having to wait so long. Sometimes their chat support hangs and the wait times are more than 20 minutes. They also ask you to sign in to get chat support if you’re an existing customer, which I think makes sense, but it seems like a bit of a nuisance to me.
I Am to the edge of losing my job now due to the worst desision of my life: moving to Bluehost! It was so a terrible mistake, it has been a nightmare since the beginning. I can firmly tell you after talking to one after one after one support agent thay they don’t have the slightest idea of what they are talking about, support agents can barely speak good english (worst than mine), they talk like they are on India or somewhere there, and they are not prepare for REAL TROUBLE, they are just prepared to dumb solutions like: restart your computer, use another browser, it is your ISP problem, for God’s sake! This is a nightmare.

BlueHost offers plenty different types of services – the only notable exception is the lack of SSL certificates, which you can’t buy together with your purchase. You have to buy them from third-party providers or get one free of charge by setting up a WordPress website. And yet, with such a wide array of services, BlueHost try to be the Internet’s one-stop-shop for all things hosting. It is also worth noticing, that there are some extra features, available to all BlueHost customers, that make this provider all the more interesting. Here’s what they are:

Bluehost uses the world standard cPanel which provides easy to manage website tools that novice users and advanced users alike. This makes tasks that seem complicated like creating subdomains or transferring domains incredibly user-friendly. Finally, the most notable advantage of using the cPanel is the sheer volume of users worldwide. With millions of users, it is very easy to find solutions to problems, tutorials, and advice from other users to get the most out of your website.
Having used Bluehost for the past 4 years I’m surprised at the number of negative reviews here. I have several domains, databases, blogs, image galleries, etc. and all have been running fine. There have been a couple brief outages. Customer service and technical support were both excellent. I was able to talk to a person quickly and they helped me out within a few minutes. I am not a full-time web developer. I basically run my site as part of my business, but I have helped out associates with their websites and have found their web hosts to be a real pain compared to Bluehost. With Bluehost all my installed apps and scripts work like a charm. I would recommend Bluehost

I tried the basic “shared” plan for several months, the so called better performing and more expensive “cloud” plan for several months and I actually experienced faster page load times with the less expensive “shared” plan and about 1/5 the downtime. Each time I was scheduled to “migrate” hosting plans, “There was a problem in completing the request” and spent several hours frantically trying to communicate with Bluehost chat and on hold over the phone. While on the cloud, my emails were completely inaccessible, for several days, and I was told an outside tech had to be called. Their recommendation to me was to use “gmail” instead. It seems Bluehost is best as a “sales” company at the moment instead of providing fast website page load times, so people can grow their data storage and legitimately grow and upgrade their hosting plans. The Bluehost chat is often times a nightmare to deal with, whether the chat program works at all after 15 minutes and more wait times or freezes as it did with me several times.

I am hosting 8 websites for clients and my own on bluehost…… have been using bluehost for over 10 years and have always received reliable help whether from chat, phone, or email. I am not a novice but I still run into problems at times and I have always gotten my problem solved with one contact. When i started converting all my sites to joomla! they were always there for my questions, no matter how trivial….. The only thing I can add is there are a good bunch of Good Ole’ boys!!!

They have, literally, outsourced 100% of their customer support and tech support to a foreign their party that has no idea what they are doing. And even if their outsourced / 3rd party tech support was “OK”, that doesn’t excuse or explain completely cutting yourself off from your customers… the people that pay your bills. In my experience, that’s the beginning of the end for any company–when they simply do not want to have any direct contact–or feedback–from their customers.
The bottom line is that for a mere dollar per month you can get started with GoDaddy's website builder plan and choose from hundreds of theme options to start designing the site of your dreams. See it as a free website builder with hosting that costs a dollar per month, or a dollar per month spent on a site builder with the hosting included for free — either way it's a pretty sweet deal.
After spending years on my website, it suddenly started getting wiped. I was happily using Concrete5 to build my site. Bluehost, forced installed WordPress, without my permission. It overrode/wiped my site, and replaced it with a blank WordPress blog. I changed it back over and over, requested they stop doing it, but they kept doing it. They've obviously made a deal with WordPress, and are doing this on purpose. I can't use concrete5 anymore.. and get constant prompts to use WordPress instead. They also tried charging me for another site, one that I'd cancelled...twice. They still charged me for it.

I had bluehost bill me two years in a row after I cancelled my account. When my card was billed a second time, I disputed the issue through my bank. My bank asked me to contact the merchant and see if we could resolve this without them. I made the call. The customer service person noted that my domain had expired more than a year ago but that she couldn't refund the payment because I had filed an active dispute. I figured I'd just let the dispute run its course - since customer service acknowledged the mistake, there shouldn't be an issue. I was wrong. Bluehost told my bank (USAA) that that I hadn't "properly cancelled my account within the agreed upon terms and conditions" and denied my refund. Let the buyer beware. I do not recommend bluehost at all.

I've been with bluehost several years as I used it to host my seeds to park the domains for my upcoming projects. I have several domains there about 50 of them. Last incident happened to me that i got hacked and 7 of them were stolen and moved to name.com. I contacted name.com and they replied promptly and they said to wait for bluehost's reply and they will cooperate to move them back. However, bluehost did not reply anything until I post a negative comment on twitter, 10 days later. 10 Days! Its an eternity for them to give a simple "hello, thank you for contacting us" reply. I strongly suggest for you guys to find a better place to host your domains, whatever reasons you are planning to, I think bluehost is NOT a reliable and safe place, its NOT worth it, at all and I advise you to stay away from them.
People share their opinions about companies on Twitter each and every day. We monitor tweets about Bluehost and apply a sentiment analysis algorithm that classifies these tweets as positive or negative. Each Bluehost review you see here is from a real person’s opinion. We use this information to output an approval rating score, which is based on real genuine people, positive and negative, opinions about Bluehost on Twitter
Bluehost uses the world standard cPanel which provides easy to manage website tools that novice users and advanced users alike. This makes tasks that seem complicated like creating subdomains or transferring domains incredibly user-friendly. Finally, the most notable advantage of using the cPanel is the sheer volume of users worldwide. With millions of users, it is very easy to find solutions to problems, tutorials, and advice from other users to get the most out of your website.
With dedicated hosting, you are essentially renting a physical server. VPS hosting is a middle-ground option where you share a physical server with others, but you have your virtual operating system, so the server functions as if it is physically yours. WordPress hosting is of course what it sounds like—hosting optimized for WordPress customers. Let’s take a look at the plan tiers for each.
Each of our contenders has their strengths. While GoDaddy leads the industry in email and domain hosting services, Bluehost remains one of the top VPS and dedicated server providers. Bluehost specializes in WordPress, but GoDaddy lets you download and install the blogging software with a single click via cPanel. Bottom line: These are market-leading hosts. Follow the one with the services that most closely match your hosting needs.

We are a small organization with a staff of five employees. Until recently, we were still using personal gmail accounts to handle all of our communication with each other, as well as our congregation. We have recently made the switch to using email addresses available to us through our domain. This gives a much more professional look to our print materials.

It is really easy to set up- I had no problem getting up my first website up using their services. Since it was my first hosting company ( and currently my present ) I really didn't know how good I had it with their services until I tried out their competitors over the following 8 years. From Hostgator to godaddy it seems like a lot of webhosting companies you every little opportunity to suck an extra dime out of you. This is not the case with blue host. They are a true, no BS hosting platform.

Once you choose your provider, it's time for you to open an account with the monthly plan that fits your needs. If you still have questions about which plan is suitable for you, call their customer support staff and have them assist you through the registration process. Companies will generally charge a credit card on a monthly basis, however, some companies will also offer discounts for paying a yearly payment at once.
I said that sounds like someone is going to charge ME for, and he said yes, BlueHost's charge to me would be $160-something, I think, and an outside vendor would charge me "a few hundred." I said no thanks and hung up. So I checked my files and see that there are dozens of unknown files - it looks like someone in China is parking all of their pages on my site (file names like Ray-Ban, Adidas, etc., so a counterfeit store, I guess). I would think that if BlueHost was about to disable my site for a "virus or malware" - or for any reason - they might let me know.
They are worth comparing against other similar budget hosts as they offer a wide variety of plans with certain niche advantages. You may want to keep an eye out for a few things that our researchers found, however. Uptime and speeds are significantly lower than most competitors (especially higher-priced competitors), and Bluehost customer service is not as helpful as one would hope.
Welcome to the CNET 2018 directory of hosting providers. In this directory, we'll look at a few of the best website hosting providers like Hostinger, Dreamhost, InMotion Hosting, MochaHost, Bluehost, Lunarpages and more. In this evaluation, we're featuring commercial hosting providers who offer WordPress, Shared Hosting, VPS and many more hosting products.
Before you spend a dime on online services – hosting included – wouldn’t it be nice to know exactly what you’re paying for? Bluehost hosting gives you a true taste of what it’s like to be one of their customers by giving you demo access to a fully functional cPanel. Since the cPanel is what you will use to manage your entire website, showing you a stripped-down version of this program would be to do you a disservice. The complete demonstration is a smart move, as the features in cPanel are robust and user-friendly. By the time you make a purchase decision, you know exactly what you getting yourself into.

We shifted to Hostgator last month. Before that, our site was hosted on with an Indian host called SquareBrothers. Our site suffered like hell during that period. The server breaks down every minute. Uptime was somewhere around 30%. They are a bunch of morons who cheat their customers. It was like a worst nightmare for us. I repeat Squarebrothers is the worst webhost in the world.

Bluehost packages come with CloudFlare integration. CloudFlare is a content delivery network (CDN), which is basically a network of servers that store cached versions of your website. When someone navigates to your website, their browser receives content from the CDN point closest to them, reducing the amount of time it takes for the data to travel (shorter distance = shorter travel time).
Bluehost has a culture that is very disruptive to the customer!! When I call tech support I can barely hear the technician's answers/explanations because of the loud background noise--loud music, employees goofing off with loud conversation and laughter, and other strange sounds. This is a problem because their platform is very confusing. I created a site using Weebley but when I return to edit the site, I have to do a lot of work to find where they have stored it. I will be returning to GoDaddy. Their platform is easy to navigate and their tech support team act like professionals and not kids on a playground.
The lack of customer service, the lack of motivation to solve problems (a CS rep accidentally canceled the wrong service and it ended up in my email and site going down and wasted advertising dollars as it was during a launch and heavy ad time) My experience with them is HANDS DOWN the worst experience I've had working with any company in the past decade.

Hi – thank you for this page, I have found it very useful – it’s a minefield out there for someone like me who wants to create a website for the first time. I wondered what your views are for someone in the UK looking for a good webhost? I do have 2 domains already with 123-Reg and in hindsight I probably should have waited. Everything I seem to read is International and I have reservations about having to deal with someone not in the UK. But am I just worrying for nothing?

During my last semester of teaching I was approached by one of my students who said he could optimize my site and get many more readers quickly, but found some security flaws in the site which should be fixed first. He offered to fix it himself for free, but first I contacted support. They did not do much and claimed the site was in good standing with security.
When I told them about this they immediately offered to refund my money - and they did this pretty fast. Their control panel is very intuitive an even though there are sponsored listings users have the choice to hide those bars. Uptime is also pretty good, and I really enjoy the performance that my blogs give. I can vouch for excellent performance when my blogs got traffic of up to 9000 uniques a day.

A cloud-based web hosting service popular for its flexible pricing plans, Bluehost offers shared hosting, virtual private servers and reseller hosting options, along with domain registration. It has an easy-to-use interface, unbelievably low pricing plans and a single-click installer for those who use WordPress. In fact WordPress.org recommends the use of Bluehost, citing easy installation and management.

Bluehost has been in this industry since 2003. Having been acquired by the mega hosting conglomerate, Endurance International Group, Bluehost is no doubt one of the leaders in the industry today. They offer a 99.9% uptime guarantee, which is basically the standard in the industry. With more promising uptime rates comes higher price points, so Bluehost presents a bargain that balances cost with reliability.
Almost all the services offer some sort of page builder that makes it easy to drag and drop to build your page. These are great for getting started, but they often lock you into the service. Most page builders are proprietary to the service, or don't create HTML that's portable enough to be easily moved to another service if you decide it's necessary.
My internet needs are simple. I host various domains with fairly simple websites. I do not use WordPress/Templates. I use a free version of Serif that lets me build a simple site with more flexibility. This works fine with Bluehost it just took a little effort to figure out how to publish with a slightly different file path. My sites and email work just fine.